On the occasion of our 10th anniversary, Thorne Dreyer, Alice Embree, Tracey Schulz, Suzy Shelor, Roy Casagranda, and Roger Baker discuss our first decade of Rag Radio programming. Plus some history of The Rag, Austin's legendary '60s-'70s underground newspaper, and its digital-age rebirth with The Rag Blog in 2006 and Rag Radio in 2009.
Also featured are highlights and snippets from former shows with guests including Dan Rather and Robin Rather, Bill Kirchen, Margaret Moser, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, Eddie Wilson, Tom Hayden, Bernie Sanders, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Bill Minutaglio, Paul Krassner, Jim Hightower, and Powell St. John.
Photo above of the Rag Radio gang. Top row, from left: Roy Casagranda, Beverly Baker Moore, Thorne Dreyer, Alice Embree, Suzy Shelor. Bottom row, from left: Tracey Schulz, Allan Campnell, Roger Baker. Photo by Charlie Martin / KOOP Radio.
Rag Radio is produced in the studios of KOOP 91.7-FM, an all-volunteer, cooperatively-run, solar powered community radio station in Austin, Texas, in association with
The Rag Blog and the New Journalism Project, a Texas 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It is streamed live on the Internet at
KOOP.org and Radio Free America. The host and producer of Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, is a prominent Austin-based activist and writer who was a pioneer of the ’60s underground press movement. The show’s engineer and co-producer is Tracey Schulz and the staff photographer is Roger Baker; Suzy Shelor is Rag Radio associate; Alice Embree is guest host; Glenn Smith and Roy Casagranda are our political analysts, and Evan Hearn is the Rag Radio apprentice. The syndicated show is broadcast (and streamed) live Fridays, 2-3 p.m. Central) on KOOP, and is later rebroadcast and streamed on WFTE-FM in Mt. Cobb and Scranton, PA., on Houston Pacifica's KPFT HD-3 90.1, by KKRN, 88.5-FM in Round Mountain, CA, and at WALHRadio.com in Wilmington, OH -- and as a featured podcast at
Veterans Today. Learn more about Rag Radio
here.
Running time: 55:37
Contact: ragradio@koop.org.
